Top 10 Coolhunting Blogs
There's a band whose albums used to say, "Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool." In that spirit, these blogs keep track of trends in the arts, design, technology and culture to help keep you plugged into the ever-changing zeitgeist.
Stays on top of trends in fashion, architecture, technology, food, publishing and other areas. Clean, understated design lets the stuff Coolhunting covers take center stage, and page automatically lengthens itself as you scroll down, meaning you never run out of articles and photos to look at.
Marketing consultant Josh Spear and colleagues watch over gadgets, the arts, music, design and lifestyle news, and covers the occasional Icelandic volcano, exotic sports car or African savannah to boot.
If you've got a little Spanish, check out this site, whose name combines the German for "good" with the Spanish for "to see." Even if you don't read Spanish, there's usually enough English to follow along, and clicking on random links is sure to start you on some cool excursion into the arts, graphic design, music or fashion.
This graphic-design magazine has spent the past 15 years following the best in modern graphic design, and on the way covering the designers, musicians and artists who are out on the cutting edge. Subjects have included artists from Frank Kozik and Big Daddy Roth, plus guides to the country's best galleries and art museums.
Collates critics' takes on movies, TV shows, albums, video games and other media artifacts, blends in some weighted averaging, and publishes the results in an easy-to-handle number that tells you what's cool and what isn't.
Gathers the writing of thousands of music reviewers into one place for easy consumption. Also lets you see at a glance the newest or most popular songs and bands, not to mention eavesdrop on what other users are listening to on the site right now.
Coolhunting expressed as the search for the latest, greatest consumer tech. Up-to-the-second news about new or prototype wristwatches, laptops and gaming platforms, plus heavy coverage of any device Apple may or may not be creating.
Breathtakingly busy, constantly updated site that categorizes the hottest trends. See-through schools and shape-shifting green cars are au courant, but charitable nature CDs and slithering light fixtures are literally yesterday's news.
This New York design firm's blog casts a wide net as it searches the world's leading edges. Articles range from skyscraper designs that "breathe" and a microscope that can be plugged into a cellphone to provide medical diagnostics, to visiting a hand-built bicycle exhibition or discussing the future of QR codes--those clusters of dots on consumer goods that give your cellphone information on them.
Cool gadgets that no one else has yet, whether that's a five-foot Gundam robot to guard your comics collection or a Cthulhu chess set literally designed to drive you mad. And while you probably don't have a Husqvarna DXR 310 demolition robot yet, Skynet may soon use them to subjugate us all. Read on.
This is actually number 11, but we couldn't resist... Trends, gadgets, and do-it-yourself tips for self-proclaimed tech geeks. What's hot and what's next in the tech domain, with a regular Cool Websites and Tools feature that keeps you up on how to get the most from your computer time. Also reviews new software and apps for both productivity and gaming.
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